Taxonomy of This Site

In website design, particularly in content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, the word “taxonomy” is crucial for organizing content. Taxonomy, terms, tags, and categories are all part of how content on a website is structured and classified. Here’s a breakdown of each concept:

1. Taxonomy: In the context of website design, a taxonomy is a system for classifying content. It’s essentially a way to group things together. WordPress, for example, uses taxonomies to manage and categorize content. A taxonomy can be hierarchical (like categories) or non-hierarchical (like tags).
2. Terms: These are the individual items within a taxonomy. For example, if you have a taxonomy called “Color”, the terms might be “Red”, “Blue”, and “Green”. Terms are the specific values assigned to a taxonomy that help to categorize the content under certain classifications.
3. Tags: Tags are a type of non-hierarchical taxonomy. They are generally used to describe your post in more detail and are not intended to create a structured hierarchy. Tags might include topics covered in the post or keywords associated with it. Users can also click on a tag to see all the content tagged with that particular term.
4. Categories: Unlike tags, categories are hierarchical, meaning you can have subcategories within them. Categories are used to broadly classify content. For instance, a news website might have categories like “Sports”, “Entertainment”, and “Politics”, each of which might have subcategories (e.g., “Football” under “Sports”).

In the case of TaxoPress, this is a plugin designed for WordPress to manage taxonomies, terms, tags, and categories more effectively. It allows you to create, manage, and apply these taxonomies to your posts, improving the way content is organized and accessed on your site. TaxoPress provides features like auto-linking terms, managing term display, and creating custom taxonomies beyond the default categories and tags, giving you more control over how content is structured on your website.

The TaxoPress documentation is located here:

https://taxopress.com/docs